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- Comment on xkcd #3196: Aurora Coolness 2 days ago:
The only northern lights I’ve ever seen were in Iceland. Honestly, the conditions were less than ideal and what I did see was very dim to the naked eye.
What a lot of people don’t know is that a camera (like on your phone) picks up even the faintest aurora with ease. I have pictures that make the whole thing look many times more vibrant than what I could see.
- Comment on How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them? 2 days ago:
Where it gets really crazy is where you have a few pairs that you rotate through for “daily wear”. A whole decade can slip by before you go “how long have I had these?”
I don’t care a whole lot about fashion so “until they stop working correctly” is about the best answer I can give.
- Comment on What a great idea 6 days ago:
It’s really the worst. For the uninitiated, the platen where your bags go is actually a scale. The self-check-kiosk software waits for this bagging scale to quit moving (see: de-bouncing) before weighing and approving the scan and purchase of a single item. This is why, occasionally, if you’re too fast or too slow, the kiosk gets angry and makes you flag down an attendant.
That’s not a problem for 10 items or less, but for a whole cart? All that waiting around adds up. Because of all that, it’s literally impossible to achieve the same or better speed than an employee.
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 6 days ago:
Jeorgia?
- Comment on dating 1 week ago:
like sifting through resumes.
Then we need to call it what it is: This exchange is an HR screen.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Make no mistake, the oligarchs see the personal computer as a 40-year-old experiment that has failed, or needs to fail. They want their mainframes and CPU/hr billing back. Server hosting for enterprise uses has already gone this way for the most part. Small consumers are next.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 1 week ago:
As far as I recall, that’s how it went.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 1 week ago:
I was gonna say this is at least Digg 3.0.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
That’s a good call. I kinda/sorta figured that the fire department would see it sooner or later, but that’s clearly not the case.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
It might be a matter of just being under a rock for the last 10-20 years. Retail PoS systems have changed quite a bit in that time, but how you interface with gas pumps and dining, hasn’t changed at all.
Also: a lot of folks navigate digital systems by rote memorization and don’t read or think all that much. If you throw a new interface in front of them, just sit back and watch the bewilderment. Gotta give people like that time to learn it all.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
Sadly, we still do. But it’s really more a matter of vendor preference these days, since some places (usually small/personal operations) don’t do digital payments. That and nobody carries large amounts of cash around, so checks are the only alternative.
That said, anyone that hasn’t moved on to prefer a bank card or credit-card is behind the times, or doesn’t have a bank account. Still, it’s rare to see these days, especially at the grocery store.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
This is the core problem, right here. At a minimum, people need training to learn what information to ignore so you can navigate the whole thing. Even if you know the store’s layout, you still need to have the will to ignore advertising and disregard extraneous information. Being a fast reader that can do fast mental math, also helps tremendously.
Traffic flow is another problem. Wegmans is the chief offender here, IMO, by putting impulse items in massive crates that crowd the store entrance+exit combo. It amazes me that it’s not a fire hazard, because it makes entering the store a nightmare. But most grocery stores have awful choke points in produce, dairy, meat, and other high-traffic areas. And of course those are the stores that have no small carts or hand-baskets, obligating customers to gum up the works with big metal baskets that are 70% empty.
A better idea is a store that doesn’t flood your eye sockets with information you don’t absolutely need. Get rid of the special displays, end-cap bullshit, and vendor promotional stuff. Then, normalize all the price tags and include unit cost per lb/oz/L/whatever to make bargain hunting a snap. Then, measure the fucking carts and make sure that two can get by everywhere in the store. Finally, pick a store layout and stick to it. </rant>
I want to say that Aldi is already doing all of the right things, but I could be wrong.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 1 week ago:
In my greater friend-group, we call them “shamans”, and rotate responsibilities when people go on trips. Like a designated driver or lifeguard, it’s a position of elevated and celebrated importance, even though the traveler may not ever leave their couch.
and most importantly be human
Now that I think about it, it’s key to be the most human possible. People do irritating and annoying stuff when they toss sobriety out the window, and sometimes it takes a lot of compassion and empathy to manage.
- Comment on Mama! 1 week ago:
While I’ve never seen it illustrated until now, I thought it was kind of obvious that this is our reality from outside our solar system. Is it not?
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 1 week ago:
Eh, I give it a 4/10 right now. There’s still some cool stuff to do and plenty of great people around, but generally, can’t recommend it if you don’t have to.
- Comment on Adderall vape? 1 week ago:
I know a handful of oddball pharma trivia facts, but that’s a new one on me. It’s just wild that a drug could even do that.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 1 week ago:
It’s worth adding that, if you are arrested, that phone is a treasure-trove of potential liability that will absolutely get used against you. Also, you’re probably not getting it back, so you’re better off without it. Carry cash, a map if you must, and coordinate rally points and fallback locations with your friends ahead of time.
A proper camera is a good tip, but make sure the camera memory and storage card are wiped ahead of time.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 1 week ago:
just living your life without a phone is getting harder
This is a bigger problem than most realize. Consider the barrier-to-entry for phones, internet access, and charging. Then add cashless payment on top of that. Combined, it creates a new red-line between economic classes, and a rather ugly one at that. At some point, this mode of commerce is going to get selected not for the convenience it provides, but for whom it excludes.
I’ll also add that getting access to a smartphone with total anonymity is impressively hard to do.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
True, but the article is about projects getting de-platformed, so all that goes away under those circumstances. There’s value tied up in all that data, but the codebase itself might be far harder to replace securely if the public repo just vanishes. Better to have at least an alternate offsite backup - on another service even - if all you do is maintain a project-owner-controlled clone.
Plus, I know it’s a small gesture, but some folks might need that tiny push to migrate if they’re already fence-sitting about leaving.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t always been a fan of Go. It launched with some iffy design decisions that have since been patched, either by the project maintainers or the community. It’s a much better experience now, which suggests that maybe there’s some long-range vision at work that I wasn’t privy to.
That said, Pike clearly has a lot of good ideas and I’m glad Google funded him to bring those to light.
I’ll also say that after finally wrapping my head around Python and JavaScript async/await, I actually much prefer the Goroutine model for concurrency. I got to those languages after surviving C++, and believe me when I say that it’s a bad time when your software develops a bad case of warts. Better to not contract them in the first place.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 2 weeks ago:
For anyone that needs to know: it’s criminally easy to set up git for multiple remotes, making a migration from GitHub a lot easier.
Remember that
originis just the default, and you can have any number configured you want.- View all remotes:
git remote -v - Add new remote:
git remote add $name $url - Push to another remote:
git push $remotename $branchname - Pull from a specific remote:
git pull $remotename/$branchname(note the slash) - Fetch from all remotes:
git fetch --all
The first two are just one-time setup, and the rest just get bolted onto your existing workflow. At some point, you’ll want to use
git remotemove names around, possibly even makingoriginsomething other than GitHub. Cheers. - View all remotes:
- Comment on Give me some good ones 2 weeks ago:
A burn so severe, so long-lasting, that he no longer has to pay to heat his home.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 2 weeks ago:
The genius of launching an attack of this scale from an address space that is already jam-packed full of hackers, should not be understated. Id say that, if not for doing it live on stage, law enforcement now has a giant haystack of needles to sift through.
- Comment on Garlic sauce 2 weeks ago:
A garlic sauce containment breech is nothing to sneeze at. Entire living rooms have been rendered uninhabitable by such events.
- Comment on Garlic sauce 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s closer to 500-750ml. I wonder what the 250ml amount was intended for? Are people dunking their crab rangoons in this stuff?
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 2 weeks ago:
I have a USB-bootable thumbdrive with Ubuntu 24 on it. Two home systems down, two to go.
My chief concern is that this wave of enshitifiation will eventually make it to Microsoft’s security support. Historically, at least recently, the weekly updates and response to critical vulnerabilities and virus scanning have been pretty good. But now that they’re attacking their own flagship products - Office and Windows itself - I think it’s only a matter of time before they fumble Windows security in a big way.
I’ll also predict that Non-pro Windows will eventually be “free” (as in beer), but will be useless without a live internet connection and cloud services. So now really is the time to switch. IMO, all the money points in that direction.
- Comment on Ska ftw 3 weeks ago:
Industrial: The world is broken and has been for a while so let’s go to the abandoned husk of the inner city, throw a party, and make insane music before it crashes down around our ears.
- Comment on Ska ftw 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 4 weeks ago:
Considering that a poor grade would just result in re-taking the class next semester, foul play would probably be worth the cost of those credit-hours.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s pretty awful. The pandemic taught us all that enough people are gross like that.
At this point, I just assume that every airport is packed to the gills with coronavirus. I mask up, avoid eating with my hands, try not to eat much at all, and wash thoroughly. That said, I ate at a sit-down restaruant at O’hare this summer and immediately caught it anyway; my flight was delayed and i was ravenous.